Shurka, her husband & their two small children never thought the war would reach their remote Polish village. They were wrong.

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Sharon Osbourne's life has always been full of drama, heartbreak & passion. When she completed her bestselling first book, Extreme, she had hoped to find some peace & stability after her rollercoaster years. It was not to be. In Survivor, her br&-new memoir, she reveals what really happened next. From famous celebrity feuds, to her eventful experiences on The X-Factor, to her turbulent relationship with her father & the tragic impact of his death, Sharon remains as frank & insightful as ever. Never afraid to admit to her own problems, she is brutally honest about her weight issues & plastic surgery. & she describes movingly how her husband's unconditional love finally brought her true happiness, even amidst all the chaos of her life. ...

It is 1938 & headstrong eighteen-year-old Mari Carrera leaves a small town in rural New Zealand aboard the SS Rimutaka. Rather too careless with her reputation, Mari is bound for the bustling anonymity of London
- but she is all too willing to be seduced by the temptations of the glittering West End. Until war comes & snatches it all away.
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Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists.

On fourteen occasions he should have been killed,

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With fun & adventure on their minds, Glen & Ding set off for London. But there is no rest from battle, for the Germans have begun dropping a new kind of bomb, the horrific V-1s, or doodlebugs. When a neighbour & her baby are trapped under their collapsed & burning home, an injured Glen is on the frontlines. ...

In November 1942, as the Battle of Stalingrad continued to rage, the Red Army launched a devastating counter-attack from outside the city...

The Soviet forces smashed the German siege & encircled Stalingrad, trapping some 290, 000 soldiers of the German 6th Army inside. For almost three months, during the harshest period of the Russian winter, the besieged German troops endured atrocious conditions.

Freezing cold & reliant on dwindling food supplies from Luftwaffe air drops, thousands died from starvation, frostbite or infection, if not from the fighting itself. This important work reconstructs the grim fate of the 6th Army in full by, for the first time, examining the little-known story of the field hospitals & central dressing stations.

The author has trawled through hundreds of previously unpublished reports, interviews, diaries & newspaper accounts to reveal the experiences of soldiers of all ranks, from simple soldiers to generals.

The book

Includes:: first-hand accounts of soldiers who were wounded or fell ill & were flown out of the encirclement; as well as those who fought to the bitter end & were taken prisoner by the Soviets.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781526734075
• Author: Reinhold Busch
• Publisher: Frontline Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 264
• Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 2.5cm

















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Four sisters, four very different characters. But they have always been there for each other, through the hard times as well as the good. Now they describe growing up performing from as young as two, what it was like when fame suddenly hit & how it caused rifts in their close-knit family. Linda opens up about her devastation when her beloved husband died just as she was coping with breast cancer. Bernie tells how she suffered through the hearbreak of losing her unborn child & recently faced her own cancer battle, Coleen talks about her marriages & reveals new secrets, & Maureen describes her sadness at the devastating family feud that saw her much loved older sisters fall out with her, Linda, Bernie & Coleen. & they share the joy of getting back on stage for their thirtieth anniversary tour
- four survivors who found that age doesnt matter when it comes to having a great time.
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An awe-inspiring journey through the eons of time & across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in living creatures which have survived from earliest times & whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life. ? Reading Richard Fortey is always pure pleasure? BILL BRYSON The history of life on Earth is far older ? & far odder ? than many of us realise. In this book, acclaimed author Richard Fortey traces this history not through fossil records, but in the living stories of organisms that have survived nearly unchanged for hundreds of millions of years & whose existence today affords us tantalising glimpses of landscapes long vanished. For evolution has not obliterated its tracks. Scattered across the globe, strange & marvellous plants & animals have survived virtually unchanged since life first began. They range from humble algal mats dating back almost two billion years to hardy musk oxen, which linger as the last vestiges of Ice Age fauna. Following in Forteys questing footsteps, Survivors takes us on fascinating journey to these ancient worlds. On a moonlit beach in Delaware where the horseshoe crab shuffles its way through a violent romance, we catch a glimpse of life 450 million years ago, shortly after it diversified on the ocean floor. Along a stretch of Australian coastline, we bear witness to the sights & sounds that would have greeted a Precambrian dawn. Finally, in the dense rainforests of New Zealand where the secretive velvet worm burrows into the rotting timber of the jungle floor, we marvel at a living fossil which has survived unchanged since before the dissolution of the Gondwana supercontinent. Written with Forteys customary sparkle & gusto, this wonderfully engrossing exploration of the worlds oldest flora & fauna brilliantly combines the best science writing about the origins of life with an explorers sense of adventure & a poets wonder at the natural world. Utterly compelling, eye-opening & awe-inspiring, this is a book for anyone with an interest in evolution, in nature, in the remarkable scope of geological time & our own modest interaction with it ? in short, in life itself. ...

Susan is a London slum child, brought up in an East End orphanage. Rebelling against its rigid rules, she runs away to Soho & is adopted by a group of prostitutes. Soon, she too is earning her living 'on the game'. When Billy ' Apples' Rafferty, a Cockney villain with a heart of gold, becomes her protector, Sue swears to give up her racy life. But when Billy is sent to prison, she soon breaks her promise & her earthy beauty makes her one of Soho's most popular hostesses. A lucky encounter secures Susan a respectable job as a manageress of a small hotel in Devon. but then her past catches up with her... ...

In this, the first book to explore Susan's amazing rags to riches story, we follow her from humble beginnings in a small Scottish town to topping the charts & performing for millions worldwide. Whether it was bullying or nearly not entering Britain's Got Talent because 'it was a young person's game', when faced with the toughest challenges, Susan never gave up. The memory of her mother inspired her to give her dream one last chance... ...